Kew Gardens 50p coin, featuring the Royal Botanical Gardens' Great Pagoda, tend to be valued at around £250 - but a rare gold ...
Formally named Pagoda of the Tooth Relic of Buddha, it is the only great pagoda for the preservation of Buddhist relies built after 1949. Sponsored by Buddhist circles in China, the pagoda was ...
The coin celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Kew depicts the gardens' Great Pagoda, which was completed in 1762 as a gift to Princess Augusta. With only 210,000 coins produced ...
As a result, Su Dongpo, a writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, also called it Dasheng (Great Sage) Pagoda. The pagoda was destroyed in 1564 in the Ming Dynasty and a pavilion was ...